Ronald Reagan Starwars
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Notice the idiot who wrote this article fails to mention that the only ballistic missile defense tests that worked were the ones where the mock missile had a homing tracker built into it, in other words ABM can only work if you literally cheat!
Back in the 1980s the liberal creeps mocked Ronald Reagan. Reagan knew back then that American ingenuity would eventually be able to defend against missiles and ICBMs. The libs said that “hitting a bullet with another bullet” was a pipe dream. They dubbed it Star Wars, unobtainable.
Well, American ingenuity combined with Israeli ingenuity, just intercepted at least 300 missiles and drones from Iran. None of them breached Israeli airspace. Even Jordan helped Israel.
Israel calls the different anti-missle systems Iron Dome (Patriot) , David’s Sling, and Arrow.
Ronald Reagan is smiling down on us.
1. Breaking from the Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2. Cost
It always made sense in that it was technically possible already many years ago (Sprint, Nike Hercules, Hawk TBM), it's a true defensive measure, and there has been a growing threat for a long-long time. Already in 1991 with the older version of the Patriot the real world practical application of this was put to test in Desert Shield / Storm when shooting down SCUD missiles.
The people that claimed they had some engineering / science argument against it, made no sense.
If anything, it was reckless and irresponsible (sorry for the cliche, but true in this case) not to pour needed resources into missile defense and slow roll it as we did for many years.
A policy that Biden/0bama is following by cutting missile defense by $400 billion.